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TIL of the space animal hypothesis, the idea that UFOs are not alien spaceships but animal lifeforms indigenous to Earth's sky or interplanetary space.

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4kaKR TIL the person shouting exclamations in the song “She Blinded Me With Science” was an actual scientist. Magnus Pyke wrote dozens of scientific papers, was a government advisor in the Ministry of Food, and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
b6Bbp TIL that (No man's land) is an area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.
W9gA TIL: The Thinnest state in America this year is fatter then the fattest state was in 1995.
wLZm1 TIL about Nameless, Texas. After submitting six names in order to get a post office and having all six rejected, citizens responded by stating, "Let the post office be nameless and be damned!" The government accepted this suggestion and the town of Nameless was born.
BAnx TIL The “90-Mile Straight” across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain is not the longest straight road in the world. That honor belongs to Highway 10, located in Saudi Arabia, which runs due East for 140 miles.